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U. S. judge blocks Colorado's first-of-its-kind price cap on an Amgen drug
31+ min ago (176+ words) In a victory for the pharmaceutical industry, a federal judge blocked a Colorado state panel from placing a cap on the price of a blockbuster drug sold by Amgen after deciding the company is "likely to be significantly harmed." The…...
More frequent, more intense, and longer heat waves pose health risks for Americans
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (112+ words) By Theresa Gaffney and Chelsea Cirruzzo Good morning. There's nothing like a heat wave to welcome in July. The newsletter is off for the holiday tomorrow, and I'm off all next week. Talk to you when I'm back! Theresa is…...
Halfway into the year, biotech is booming
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (178+ words) Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist for STAT, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a cohost of STAT's weekly "The Readout LOUD" podcast and the author of the…...
A "historic" FDA clearance raises the question: Is LLM the interface? Or the decision-maker?
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (187+ words) STAT A "historic" FDA clearance raises the question: Is LLM the interface? Or the decision-maker? Up Doc"s CEO wouldn"t say whether generative AI in the company"s diabetes app makes treatment decisions Mario covers technology in health care,…...
Teens are turning to chatbots for mental health help. We need rules to keep them safe
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (453+ words) While parents, schools, and lawmakers are still debating the impact of social media on children's mental health, anew technology has taken the therapist's seat: AIchatbots. In research that my colleagues and I published recently in JAMA Pediatrics, we found that…...
CDC leadership continues to try manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (601+ words) What happens if public health agencies stopped trusting their own tools, scientists, and surveillance networks for measuring whether vaccines work? We end up less able to monitor the performance of Covid-19, flu, RSV vaccines, and whatever comes next. That's the…...
A year after distressed buyout, what's become of Bluebird Bio?
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (253+ words) David Meek bought Bluebird Bio last year for the pharma industry equivalent of loose change." The company was on the brink of bankruptcy. In 12 months, he says, it's been transformed." In a swaggering" interview, one of the first he's given…...
The new presidential fitness test is a positive step, not the solution, experts say
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (707+ words) WASHINGTON " The presidential fitness test, a divisive hallmark of children's education from the 1960s to the 2010s, is back as part of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign to promote youth health and combat chronic disease." "The bottom line is that…...
A former AI regulator, now in industry, says biopharma is reading FDA's guidance wrong
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (150+ words) SAN DIEGO " Two years ago, Tala Fakhouri was writing AI policy at the Food and Drug Administration." Now, after leaving the FDA last summer, she's getting a firsthand look at how the industry is implementing the policies she wrote as…...
Statins and blood pressure drugs changing health risks of obesity, study suggests
15+ hour, 22+ min ago (974+ words) People with obesity have worse cardiovascular health than people with normal weight, especially as they get older, right? For adults under 40, there was no such convergence between differing BMI groups, likely reflecting less screening for the two silent dangers." In…...